“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”

“If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. ”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.”